The Realist painter and famed cartoonist of 19th-century France, Honoré Daumier, made several illustrations for Miguel de Cervantes’s novel, Don Quixote (1605/1615), which was Daumier’s favorite book. The Don and his squire Sancho Panza ride upon what must be more properly donkeys than horses. The hesitancy and gait of the animals is crucial to relaying the reckless uncertainty, delusion, and humor of the story.